Tigers President, CEO and General Manager David Dombrowski and Vice President, Assistant General Manager, Al Avila, will participate in activities around the park along with manager Jim Leyland and his entire coaching staff. Former Tigers expected to be on hand include Gates Brown, Barbaro Garbey, John Hiller, Mickey Lolich, Dan Petry, Dave Rozema, Jon Warden and Milt Wilcox. Tigers broadcasters Rod Allen, Dan Dickerson and Jim Price will also be on hand.

A quick check of the list reveals four prominent players who won’t be attendance. By my count Carlos Guillen, Joel Zumaya, Fernando Rodney, and Brandon Inge will not be there. I’m not going to read too much in to any of those that won’t be there, just pointing it out for those who are going. The event is a sellout, but there are tickets available on StubHub!

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Here I am in sunny SoCal and I wish I was in MI for Tigerfest. Am I insane or what?

Congrats to the Goose. Going in w/Dick Williams is great. Let’s see that clip where Goose talks Williams into letting him pitch to Gibby. Boom!

18% for Trammell. What a joke. At least he beat Concepcion by a few votes.

I do not get the Jim Rice bandwagon. He was feared, yes. Lots of sluggers were feared. He was a lousy OF, he has some incredible off the chart GIDP numbers, and as good as he was at his peak his career was short. Even in ’78 when he put up the big numbers his SLG was .600. Very good but not great. He hit like Frank Robinson at Fenway and like Jeff Conine everywhere else.

we figured it out the trick this year – just camped out in the press conference area. had great seats, and a great time. it wasn’t crowded because they didn’t announce names beforehand .. but then in walked Leyland, Cabrera, Willis, Robertson, Polanco, Ordonez, Guillen, asst. mgr. Avila, four ’68 Tigers, along with some others … pretty much everyone I’d wanna see! the q&a sessions were laid back too, really easy to ask something if you wanted. That part of the day was worth 12 bucks within the first five minutes! four hours of that was baseball fan heaven.